Senior Enterprise Architect (Aviation)

As Senior Enterprise Architect for Aviation, you will play a key role in growing our advisory portfolio by shaping, winning, and delivering new work, focusing on ensuring that the airports business strategy uses the appropriate technology to achieve its goals.

You will work on a range of projects, covering digital aspects across airport master planning, new airport developments, to aviation business transformation. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, your responsibilities will range from development of Digital & Data Strategies, creating Enterprise Architectures for aviation and similar businesses, to scoping and specifying a wide range of Airport Operational Systems, through to supporting aviation clients to maximize the value from aviation data.

Job Descriptions:

• Provide high value consultancy to customers at the enterprise, program and project level.
• Contribute to the develop of the Digital & Data Strategies for aviation clients, through the analysis of the business objectives, current technologies, and assessment of future trends.
• Creating Enterprise Architecture Models covering Business Architecture, Systems of Systems Architecture, Solutions Architecture & Data Architecture.
• Engage with Project and Program-level executives, assisting them in shaping strategies, adopting new ways of working and accelerating progress in unlocking the value of digital.
• Engage with Technology Executive and Teams to understand current technology and emerging thinking.
• Develop roadmaps to set out the approach to achieve the business objectives. Recognize and explore the vital leadership and cultural change required to execute a Digital Strategy.
• Develop the Solutions Architectures for systems and their integration, within the context of a wider Enterprise Architecture.
• Undertake Technology Evaluation to assess the best fit solutions to meet different capabilities.
• Establishing Enterprise Architecture governance for program and projects
• Support the development of Data Architecture and the definition of interfaces.
• Develop trusted relationships with our clients and support the growth of our business by leading and contributing to development of proposal.
• Support with service and people development to help grow and develop our business and team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent education and work experience.
• Extensive knowledge of the application of IT, digital and data in aviation, and of airport operations more generally, is a must.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, preferably within the aviation industry.
• Specific knowledge of Enterprise Architecture across the business architecture modelling, Business Architecture, Systems Architecture, Solutions Architecture & Data Architecture.
• Experience in the use of a variety of Enterprise Architecture tools, and their application to different types of program and organization.
• Experience of both On Premise and Cloud technology and their use in provision of critical IT solutions.
• Extensive professional experience, for example, previous work within management consultancy, systems integrator, with a supplier or an in-house role in which you have gained exposure to aviation digital project(s)
• Strong Project/ Program management skills e.g., managing commercial success, risk, schedule development, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A strong customer-centric perspective that focuses on outcomes and whole-life value.
• Knowledge of the test and commissioning of aviation digital solutions and their integration.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal and visual) carried through into project deliverables and proposals.
• Knowledge of the latest trends across aviation, within aviation digital and more generally across digital and technology.
• Demonstrable passion for digital and delivering social, environmental, and economic outcomes.
• A self-starter mentality with a desire to apply initiative and new ideas, comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
• An open minded, confident, collaborative attitude; a strong sense of team spirit; vision driven.
• Ability to think strategically and laterally, bringing creativity to problem solving.
• Interest and passion for innovation and technology.